Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope you’ve been blessed of late. I woke up kind of sick this morning with fatigue and from having a bad headache at the end of the day before. I crashed through most of the day today and wrote some thank you notes. But yesterday Jasna prayed with me to receive Christ.

I had walked around all day and though I chatted with some of the students I know I interviewed only one Christian briefly after about 3 hours. I could not find someone to answer questions. Finally I came across Jasna who was sitting against the counter looking outside in the cafeteria. She was willing to answer some questions saying she had some things to say. She was a cute Latina girl with long hair past her shoulders slight stature with half round plastic frame glasses, she was dressed in a black fleece and leggings. When I asked her what she would say to God if asked why He should let her into heaven she said, “I’m still a believer. Although I did some bad mistakes in life… I did it with truth and faith so it also was honesty.” She thought she only had a 50% chance of going to Heaven saying of the likelihood, “Not very much, I still have a lot to figure out with myself.” As I went through the Gospel she interrupted me to ask questions that were not related to what I had said directly but I stopped and gave her answers and things to think about, a counter narrative. Most of them were related to the politically correct information she was getting shoved down her throat in the Psychology class. The LGBT agenda being in full swing there. She also asked me about insanity and suicide. I said that in the Bible Paul teaches if there is one believing parent the children are made holy [1 Corinthians 7:14]. Children who are not yet old enough to be responsible for their own judgement of belief one would presume. I said that if someone had been insane throughout their life in my view they would not have even entered into the category of responsible actions but had remained like a child in that way. We talked about other scientific facts. she wanted to be a radiologist and I pointed out that as a radiologist one day she could look at a brain scan and tell me if she was looking at a male or a female brain. This was in part because testosterone severs a number of the bio-chemical pathways in the brain of male babies in the womb that connect the right and left hemispheres (of the brain). So a man, any man, has a male brain. Thus a man does not know what a woman feels like scientifically speaking and a female does not know what a man feels like scientifically speaking. So Bruce Jenner cannot tell you he feels like a woman, scientifically speaking. He can tell you he feels like putting on woman’s clothes but many women do not often or ever feel like putting on woman’s clothes, this is not a definitive marker of being a woman. Our discussion went in and out of many things like this that provided a counter narrative to the attack on traditional things the Christian Church has taught for 2,000 years. Too bad you can’t record yourself talking to strangers I’d like to listen to the things God seemed to sort of put in my mouth so to speak. (Jesus promises He will give us words in the moment in Luke 12:11,12). In any event the Holy Spirit seemed to be speaking to her and she said at one point, “My mind is kind of blown right now.” “A truth bomb.” I replied and she agreed. I was able to get back to the Gospel explaining to her that what she needed most was God’s Spirit inside her guiding her and showing the truth. She wanted to be forgiven. I suggested to her that she it was possible she had not really been trusting in what Jesus had done for her on the cross for forgiveness and asked her if she wanted to trust in what Jesus had done to forgive her. I walked her through the prayer asking if she’d like to pray it and she said with some lightness, “Yeah.” She took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus silently. I gave her the student edition of The Case for Christ and also 20 Things God Can’t Do writing her name and the date and ‘forgiven” in the front. I explained a symbolic view of the mass that might help her have a moment of thankfulness with God. I also wrote “By the Spirit’s Power” and explained everything God was asking her to do He would also give her the power to do. “Thank you,” she said. Saying she thought it was God who had sent me to her and had been praying for answers to her questions. She said she was going to study for an exam but felt hungry so she went and got some fries and then I came by. “This helped so much I’m not even kidding you,” she said. I said I would pray for her and gave her some advice about not worrying about what was said in class or arguing with teacher who would not be persuaded and would bite her head off.  She said she would email me and grabbed up her things having finished her snack of Chick-Fil-A fries and herself mixed mayo and ketchup dip. ‘Thank you so much.” she said again and went away with a lighter heart.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for Evangelism yesterday if you had a chance. God truly blessed.

In Him,

Bob